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For the first time, a group of Indian police officers and commandos will be trained by the CIA and the FBI in the US for over a month on how to operate in "high-risk terrorist confrontations" and effectively usehandguns and shoulder weapons in close quarters battle with terrorists.
The US, whose Navy SEALs liquidated Osamabin Laden in a high-risk raid at Abbottabad in Pakistan, has told India that the course will be very "physically demanding" as instead of classroom lectures, 85 per cent ofthe training will be done through drills and field lessons.
The US is opening up its prestigious trainingfacility in Mayock, North Carolina -believed to be a secret CIA training unit -for the five-week 'Crisis Response Team Course'from October 22 to November 23. Night-time training exercises and high-risk counterterror raids will be part of it.
Twenty-four officers and commandos from the Delhi Police Special Cell, Anti-Terrorism Squads (ATS) of various states and the NSG will be sent for training.
The 26/11 attack exposed the severe lack ofpreparedness of our forces to tackle heavily-armed terrorists.
Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare, twoother senior officers Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar and three constables were killed after they boarded a single vehicle to chase terrorists Ajmal Qasab and Ismail Khan.
The two terrorists opened fire on the vehicle, killed the six occupants, pulled their bodies out and fled in the vehicle. The policeofficers had no proper bullet-proof jackets or advanced firepower to take on the two AK-47 wielding terrorists.
The NSG was also criticised in some quarters for taking nearly three days to flush out terrorists from Hotel Taj, Hotel Oberoi and Nariman House even as it lost two of its men, Major Sandeep Unnikrishnanat Hotel Taj and a constable at Nariman House.
Then home minister P. Chidambaram later conceded that the operations were conducted under very difficult circumstances: the terrorists were heavily armed, there was a hostage situation, and the terrorists had the advantage of shield and height afforded by the tall buildings that they had entered. Even in the Batla House encounter in 2008, Delhi Police inspector Mohan Chand Sharma lost his life while two terrorists were neutralised and one terrorist made good his escape from the building.
The training course in the US will address these very deficiencies.
"At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to use basic skills necessary to resolve high-risk terrorist confrontations using a variety of options and employing the minimum amount of force necessary to protect human life. Participants must keep in mind that half of the course consists of close quarters battle techniques and the second largest piece of training deals with live-fire using both handguns and shoulder weapons," a letter from the home ministry says.
Indian commandos to get training by the CIA, FBI to take on terrorists : North, News - India Today
The US, whose Navy SEALs liquidated Osamabin Laden in a high-risk raid at Abbottabad in Pakistan, has told India that the course will be very "physically demanding" as instead of classroom lectures, 85 per cent ofthe training will be done through drills and field lessons.
The US is opening up its prestigious trainingfacility in Mayock, North Carolina -believed to be a secret CIA training unit -for the five-week 'Crisis Response Team Course'from October 22 to November 23. Night-time training exercises and high-risk counterterror raids will be part of it.
Twenty-four officers and commandos from the Delhi Police Special Cell, Anti-Terrorism Squads (ATS) of various states and the NSG will be sent for training.
The 26/11 attack exposed the severe lack ofpreparedness of our forces to tackle heavily-armed terrorists.
Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare, twoother senior officers Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar and three constables were killed after they boarded a single vehicle to chase terrorists Ajmal Qasab and Ismail Khan.
The two terrorists opened fire on the vehicle, killed the six occupants, pulled their bodies out and fled in the vehicle. The policeofficers had no proper bullet-proof jackets or advanced firepower to take on the two AK-47 wielding terrorists.
The NSG was also criticised in some quarters for taking nearly three days to flush out terrorists from Hotel Taj, Hotel Oberoi and Nariman House even as it lost two of its men, Major Sandeep Unnikrishnanat Hotel Taj and a constable at Nariman House.
Then home minister P. Chidambaram later conceded that the operations were conducted under very difficult circumstances: the terrorists were heavily armed, there was a hostage situation, and the terrorists had the advantage of shield and height afforded by the tall buildings that they had entered. Even in the Batla House encounter in 2008, Delhi Police inspector Mohan Chand Sharma lost his life while two terrorists were neutralised and one terrorist made good his escape from the building.
The training course in the US will address these very deficiencies.
"At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to use basic skills necessary to resolve high-risk terrorist confrontations using a variety of options and employing the minimum amount of force necessary to protect human life. Participants must keep in mind that half of the course consists of close quarters battle techniques and the second largest piece of training deals with live-fire using both handguns and shoulder weapons," a letter from the home ministry says.
Indian commandos to get training by the CIA, FBI to take on terrorists : North, News - India Today
